Chrysothemis: But sometimes justice itself is fraught with harm.
Electra: I care not to live by such a law.
Chrysothemis: Well, if thou must do this, thou wilt praise me yet.
Electra: And do it I will, no whit dismayed by thee.
Chrysothemis: Is this so indeed? Wilt thou not change thy counsels?
Electra: No, for nothing is more hateful than bad counsel.
Chrysothemis: Thou seemest to agree with nothing that I urge.
Electra: My resolve is not new, but long since fixed.
Chrysothemis: Then I will go; thou canst not be brought to approve
my words, nor to commend thy conduct.
Electra: Nay, go within; never will I follow thee, however much thou
mayst desire it; it were great folly even to attempt an idle quest.
Chrysothemis: Nay, if thou art wise in thine own eyes, be such wisdom
thine; by and by, when thou standest in evil plight, thou wilt praise
my words. (Chrysothemis goes into the palace.)
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